Individual Speaker Profile

• Watts Water Technologies - From 2021-09-27 To 2023-08-04
• T-Mobile USA - From 2017-02-13 To 2021-09-17
• Cisco Systems - From 2015-06-12 To 2017-02-10
• Rackspace - From 2012-04-02 To 2015-06-26

Use my powers for the good of OpenStack to create a world-class platform

• DevOps
• Operations
• Remote Work
• Innovation
• Leadership

Rainya "Rai" Mosher combines her role as a seasoned technical leader with her passion for public speaking. With over 15 years in agile product development, she's adept at steering complex engineering programs from concept to launch. Rai's virtual and in-person presentations have resonated with audiences across the Americas, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific regions. Her industry insights stem from tenures at notable technology and manufacturing firms, including Cisco Systems, T-Mobile USA, and Watts Water Technologies. Rai is an alumnus of the UT Austin McCombs School of Business, where she earned her Master of Science in Technology Commercialization. She welcomes speaking engagements on a diverse array of topics.

Areas of Expertise:

• Technical program and strategic product management
• Vendor management for non-finance professionals
• Business agility and the agile mindset
• Agile software development lifecycles
• Business process assessment and enhancement
• Remote-first and distributed team ways of working
• Fostering effective communication and collaboration
• Designing and architecting large-scale, distributed systems (cloud infra, IoT)
• Driving technology modernization and digital transformation
• Championing Women in Tech
• Accelerating innovation within an organization

• From Developer to Manager to Evangelist: Contributions Beyond Python Code

• Service Oriented Deployments at Scale in an OpenStack Public Cloud
• Standing Tall in the Room - Sponsored by the Women of OpenStack
• Collaboration in an HD World: Working Effectively on Distributed and Remote Teams

• Learning to Scale OpenStack: Juno Update from the Rackspace Public Cloud

• So You Want to Be an OpenStack Contributor?
• Your OpenStack DevOps Team: Encouraging Innovation with Open Source Development
• Learning to Scale OpenStack: An Update from the Rackspace Public Cloud
• Using Continuous Integration with an Open Source Code Base for Large-Scale Infrastructure Deployments

• Learning to Scale OpenStack: A Case Study in Rackspace's Open Cloud Deployment

• Collaboration in an HD World: Working Effectively on Distributed and Remote Teams
• Service-Oriented Deployments at Scale

• English